Julia v1.6 Release Notes

New language features

Types written with where syntax can now be used to define constructors, e.g. (Foo{T} where T)(x) = ....

Language changes

Compiler/Runtime improvements

Command-line option changes

Multi-threading changes

Build system changes

New library functions

New library features

Standard library changes

The nextprod function now accepts tuples and other array types for its first argument ([#35791]).

LinearAlgebra

Markdown

Random

REPL

SparseArrays

Dates

Statistics

Sockets

Distributed

UUIDs

Change uuid1 and uuid4 to use Random.RandomDevice() as default random number generator ([#35872]).

Deprecated or removed

External dependencies

Tooling Improvements